Public Service Railway Co. v. Township of Weehawken

Backes, V. C.

The West Shore railroad operates two ferries on tbe Hudson between its Weehawken terminal and Forty-second street and Cortland street, New York, for tbe transportation of its railroad passengers, and tbe public traveling between tbe two places. Tbe approach to tbe ferry at Weehawken from 'the nearest public highway—tbe boulevard—a thousand yards away, is down Clifton road from an elevation of one hundred and fifty feet or more, southerly and easterly, to a plaza about sixty feet wide and of much greater length, maintained by tbe West Shore railroad along and in front of tbe ferry…